A Joyride through Technological Change: Interview with David Cox Dirk de Bruyn January 2022 Interviews David Cox’s innovative engagement with moving image technology extends over numerous iterations, spanning analogue formats 16mm, 35mm and Super 8 to a creative engagement with gaming to 360 degree immersive pro...
The Dissolution of Self Dirk de Bruyn July 2021 Australian Autofiction Saidin Salkic is a Bosnian-Australian filmmaker whose recent prolific output includes Waiting for Sevdah (2017, 40 mins), Silence’s Crescendo (2018, 41 mins), The Shocking (2019, 27 mins) and The Human (2020, 4...
Fear of the Dark Dirk de Bruyn July 2021 Australian Autofiction Peter Tammer’s Fear of the Dark (1985) is partly a fictional exploration and re-enactment of the process of murder and violent intent. It is also part Cinéma vérité documentary of actor Robert Ratti’s daily lif...
Mobilities Between Place, Sound and Image: An Interview with Ana Vaz Dirk de Bruyn May 2021 Interviews I spoke with Ana Vaz at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in 2020. I had not seen Ana since watching her first film Sacris Pulso in Australia (2007), which re-configures the film Brasiliários (19...
Capitalism and its Discontents: an Interview with Mike Hoolboom Dirk de Bruyn October 2020 Interviews Dirk de Bruyn has been practicing, writing and curating in the area of experimental film and animation for over 35 years. He is currently teaching Animation and Digital Culture at Deakin University in Melbourne...
SXSW Lite: Mutating Social Hustle Into Couch Potato Charm Dirk de Bruyn April 2020 Festival Reports Five days before I got on a plane to SXSW, the world turned. All international travel was cancelled by my institution. A hammer blow. It took time to emotionally process this lost opportunity. There was no Covi...
A Resilient Ann Arbor Digs Deep Dirk de Bruyn April 2020 Festival Reports Ann Arbor Film Festival is the longest running avant-garde and experimental film festival in North America. 1963 was its foundation year. This year would bring 40 programs, and 180 films selected from 3,500 sub...
The Rhizomatic Underground of Contemporary Animation Curatorship: The 9th Under the Radar Festival Dirk de Bruyn October 2019 Festival Reports The 9th Under the Radar animation film festival took place in the MuseumsQuartier, the Blickle Kino and the Filmhaus Kino in Vienna from 1-5 July. The event has a conference component which enables an in-depth ...
Laying Bare the Anzac Legend: Interview with Köken Ergun Dirk de Bruyn October 2019 Interviews I am talking with Turkish filmmaker and video artist Köken Ergun at the International Film Festival Rotterdam about a documentary that all Australian and New Zealand audiences should see. Şehitler (Heroes), com...
The Unspeakable finds Voice: The 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam Dirk de Bruyn March 2019 Festival Reports The 48th edition of the International Film Festival of Rotterdam was IFFR director Bero Beyer’s fourth iteration. The four program groupings that he instigated in his inaugural year remain in place with special...
Chasing Rabbits out of the Hat and into the SHEDding of Childhood: Alice Dirk de Bruyn March 2018 Alice in Wonderland This is an abridged version of a longer article. Alice (1987 Switzerland/Czechoslovakia 86 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Condor Features/Film Four International/Hessischer Rundfunk Prod: Peter-Christian F...
Neil Taylor’s Experimental Animation: The Technical Habitus As Aesthetic Trace Dirk de Bruyn September 2016 Feature Articles This essay examines Neil Taylor's animations, situated between the moving image, performance and sculpture and in the shadows of his recognised wire-based sculptural practice. Taylor's animations automatically ...
